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By: teachourkidshttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/charter-schools-get-less-money-per-student-study-says/comment-page-1/#comment-687659
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:47:13 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/charter-schools-get-less-money-per-student-study-says/#comment-687659Our charter school has a total student population of 300. It is public, it is free, it is non-profit, it is underfunded. It is not run by a hedge fund, it does not have even excess funds, it uses Dept of Ed facilities and services just like the public school we share space with and our parents fundraise like crazy to raise trip money for our students, just like the public schools. All money donated to the school (and trust me it is nowhere close to even 1 million) goes towards a free afterschool program for our kids and even then we fall short. We service a larger percentage of special ed students than all the other schools in our district.

How do we “cherry pick” the best students? Our lottery is public during which every single application is pulled and waitlisted in front of parents, our auditors and every year, a member of the press. Perhaps it is just a matter of numbers because of our small school size but this setting is amazing for the children and they receive more personal care than they ever would in a huge public school.

It is just too sad to read some of these postings by folks who repeat the same tired mis-information and generalizations fed to them.

Do your research and get your facts right. Imagine what we could achieve if all the time and energy spent ranting against charter schools was spent rather on making all our public schools better?

Public schools have been around a long long time before charters were even around. Why all the outrage now? Where have you been all those years while our public schools were in decline?

I am not pro-charter, I am pro-great public schools no matter what label is put on it, I am pro-educating our children in any system that benefits THEM!

Let’s get together and re-direct our energies towards making all our local public schools great and then this kind of negative dialogue would no longer need to exist and the focus can turn back towards what’s most important….. our children.

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Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:24:55 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/charter-schools-get-less-money-per-student-study-says/#comment-662709we all live here in new york city and the mayor is trying to create a new school system and wants to handpick the kids and teachers to work in them. While the system that is in place to educate our children, he sticks his head in the sand and won’t fix it. he knows damn well there are discipline issues in school, but he puts principals in a catch 22 situation. if they report the issues they look like they cannot handle the school , if they do not report the issues, they put the teachers in a bad posiiton. not to mention that their is no parent accountability for children misbehaving in school. so the charter school system may be good but every kid that lives in this city should have an option to attend. since these so called teachers in charter schools are so good, then they should be able to teach all students regardless of where they come from. fix the public system and stop wasting so much money
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Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:27:28 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/charter-schools-get-less-money-per-student-study-says/#comment-624131What does the statement in the study “we disregarded spending that depends on the make-up of the student body” mean? That “per pupil” funding provided for Title I poverty, Title III English as a Second Language, and special education students wasn’t included in the study, or that such “spending” was included in the study and “the make-up of the student body” disregarded?

Please tell the public exactly what was disregarded the funding or the special needs of students.

You can ‘cherry pick’ statistics just as easily as you can ‘cherry pick’ students for Charter Schools.

It is a fact that Charter schools have a much smaller percentage of special needs students.

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Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:25:13 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/charter-schools-get-less-money-per-student-study-says/#comment-621873I will support public schools- they are non-profit and accept all. I do not want to support profit making enterprises- regardless of what services they provide. Why is a citizen obligated to provide for another persons profit?

If our public school system is so bad, and the charter system so good, then they shouldn’t need as much money.

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Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:32:26 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/charter-schools-get-less-money-per-student-study-says/#comment-621605This paper a few days ago noted that the special chef and lunches at one charter school cost 5 dollars while regular school lunches were about a buck. I guess that wasn’t taken into account.
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